Re: gEDA-dev: Project Manager

[al davis <ad151-at-NOSPAMfreeelectron_dot_net>]

On Saturday 29 March 2008 17:46, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I've watched the user community over at Kicad grow rapidly over the
> last 1 1/2 years.  Bully for them.   The lessons to be drawn from
> that:
>
> *  Operation on Windoze expands your audience by about 10x.
>
> *  It also enlarges the number of totally clueless fools who clog up
> your e-mail list.  But not by 10x, rather by only 2 or 3x.
>
> *  I often see Kicad users ask for features like gEDA has.  That
> means that gEDA is the leader.  However, we can't be complacent,
> since their community is now much larger than ours.
>
> *  We should stick to our knitting:  gEDA should remain a collection
> of power tools which users can adapt into any workflow they want.
> Kicad exists for the rank newbie.  Our attraction is power,
> flexibility, and scalability.  Hopefully......

and gEDA is more than just schematic and layout.

Qucs is an integrated simulation environment, with the same limits as 
kicad.


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